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2026 Conference Information

SAVE THE DATES! Connections 2027 will be hosted by the National Defense University (NDU) in Washington, DC and the Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA) in Alexandria, VA.

June 29 – July 1, 2027: National Defense University hosts the three-day unclassified conference at Ft. Lesley J. McNair in Washington, DC.

June 28, 2027: Institute for Defense Analyses hosts a classified day at the SECRET NOFORN level in Alexandria, VA (just across the river from DC).

You can attend the unclassified conference without attending the classified day, or vice versa.

Apologies to our international participants – we value your involvement a great deal, but we are unable to provide a classified day suitable for your attendance. The three-day unclassified conference remains open to all those with a professional interest in wargaming.

Watch this space for more information as it becomes available!

About Connections US

The Connections Wargaming Conference is an annual event held each summer to bring together practitioners from every segment of the wargaming community. Connections is open to all wargaming practitioners, and we welcome international participation.

Connections US has been held every year since 1993, Connections UK was established in 2013 at Kings College London, Connections Australia was established in 2014 at the University of Melbourne, Connections Netherlands was established in 2014 by SAGANET, and Connections North (Canada) was established in 2016. These conferences are all independently managed and hosted, but they share a common mission to provide wargaming practitioners with a venue to share best practices and advance the field. Together, the Connections conferences around the world are building the wargaming community of practice and working to improve the use of wargaming as a tool for research, analysis, education, and policy.